Description
The dataset “Rapid documentation of Avian Species of Guindy National Park, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.” is published by Nature Mates-Nature Club.
The Guindy National Park is a protected area in Chennai, India. It is one of India's smallest national parks, with 2.70 km2 (1.04 sq mi), and one of the few located within a metropolitan region. The park is an extension of the grounds that encircle Raj Bhavan,the official residence of the Governor of Tamil Nadu, and includes forests, scrub areas, lakes, and streams.
In 1920, Guindy was named a Reserve Forest due to its ecological, faunal, floral, geomorphological, and zoological importance.
One of the few remaining remnants of Southern Tropical Dry Evergreen Forests forms a pattern of mosaic with grasslands and scrubs in the National Park.
The park has a tropical climate, with mean annual temperatures ranging from 32.9 °C at the highest to 24.3 °C at the lowest. Rainfall varies from 522 mm to 2,135 mm, with an average yearly total of 1,215 mm. The distinctive vegetation of the shore is determined by the summer season, which lasts from April to May. The wet season lasts from June to December, followed by the dry season from January to March. The location also features a cleared meadow named Polo Field that measures about 230 m by 160 m (520 ft) and a lake known as the 'Tangal Eri'.The park's existence and the surrounding green regions earned it the nickname "the green lungs of Chennai." A perimeter wall stretches 9.5 kilometres, around the park, protecting it. There is a vast network of roads and paths. The park's road network extends for approximately 14 kilometres. The park features two big tanks, Kathan Kollai and Appalam Kolam, as well as two ponds that typically dry up during the summer.The park contains a dry evergreen scrub and thorn forest, meadows, and water bodies.
This dataset records the Avian species observed during a one day visit to Guindy National Park on 25th of November 2024.
All the birds have been identified upto species level. There are 13 bird species in total, with records of them in 10 different families and 6 different orders. Yellow-billed Babbler found exclusively in the Southern part of India was spotted and recorded during the visit.
Data Records
The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 1 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Chatterjee L, Sengupta N, Samanta T, Basu Roy A, Barve V (2024). Rapid documentation of Avian Species of Guindy National Park, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.. Version 1.0. Nature Mates-Nature Club. Samplingevent dataset. https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=guindytncn&v=1.0
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Nature Mates-Nature Club. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
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Keywords
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Geographic Coverage
The Guindy National Park is a protected area in Chennai, India. It is one of India's smallest national parks, with 2.70 km2 (1.04 sq mi), and one of the few located within a metropolitan region. The park is an extension of the grounds that encircle Raj Bhavan,the official residence of the Governor of Tamil Nadu, and includes forests, scrub areas, lakes, and streams.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [12.984, 80.214], North East [13.01, 80.24] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
All the birds have been identified upto species level. There are 13 bird species in total, with records of them in 10 different families and 6 different orders.
| Class | Aves (Birds) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date | 2024-11-25 |
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Project Data
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| Title | Nature Mates-Nature Club |
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Sampling Methods
Line transect
| Study Extent | Guindy National Park, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
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Method step description:
- Direct observation, Call identification, Field notes, Photography Equipment used are binocular Olympus (10*50 DPS I ) Camera (Nikon Coolpix P900, P600, B600). Nikon D750 with 200-500 zoom lens. Observed data were recorded in the field notebook.
Bibliographic Citations
- Grimmett R, Inskipp C, Inskipp T (2016) Birds of the Indian Subcontinent: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and the Maldives. Bloomsbury Publishing.
- eBird. (2022). eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance. eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Available: http://www.ebird.org
- IUCN. (2022). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-1. https://www.iucnredlist.org
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| Alternative Identifiers | https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=guindytncn |
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